NRA Boycott: Will Progressive Bullying Have an Effect?

Activists are putting pressure on companies with ties to the NRA (Getty Images)

The liberals are proficient at one thing in particular. They know how to boycott and hopefully destroy American companies. It seldom works that way, but they keep trying.

Their thinking is this: if you don’t agree with us, there is no discussion. The group that calls themselves “compassionate” and “tolerant” is the least of either adjective. Their mission is to destroy anyone or anything by innuendo, gossip or lies.

Their latest target is the NRA. Liberal activists have attempted to apply pressure on corporations to sever ties with the National Rifle Association.

It appears to be having unintended consequences. It is galvanizing support for the Second Amendment advocacy organization. In fact, recent polls show support for the NRA and for arming teachers has increased since the boycotts.

Since the carnage of the high school shooting in Parkland, Florida February 14, several major corporations, including United and Delta Airlines, Hertz, Avis, Symantec and MetLife, have announced they will no longer be offering discounts to NRA members, USA Today reported.

Meanwhile, the liberal group ThinkProgress, funded by, you guessed it, George Soros, is taking credit for blackmailing American corporations who do not adhere to their liberal ideology. According to The Daily Caller, Soros and his money make it all possible.

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There are other so-called “progressive” groups involved. They are Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense and Everytown for Gun Safety. They are threatening Amazon, Apple and Google to shut down NRATV on their platforms or else.

The NRA fought back last Saturday. They released the following statement:

The law-abiding members of the NRA had nothing at all to do with the failure of that school’s security preparedness, the failure of America’s mental health system, the failure of the National Instant Check System or the cruel failures of both federal and state governments.

For any sane American, these words are common sense. The shooter was well known to local, state and federal officials. The extortion groups who threaten America’s corporations are not looking for further gun measures. They want a total ban on guns, allowing the very same officials that could have prevented the tragedy to have sole responsibility for your lives. They will be there for you when criminals have illegal guns that bypass all “progressive” laws and kill you. There for you at your funeral, that is.

Dwight L. Schwab, Jr. is an award-winning national political and foreign affairs columnist and published author. His long-running articles include many years at Examiner.com and currently at Newsmax.com and Newsblaze.com. Dwight is an author of two highly acclaimed books, "Redistribution of Common Sense - Selected Commentaries on the Obama Administration 2009-2014" and "The Game Changer - America's Most Stunning Election in History." Dwight has spent the better part of a decade prodding and poking the politically correct. Their usually humorless and prepared diatribes of anything that is not "tolerant" to them is open season for this conservative writer.